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[egypturnash]

Today's diversion: my mother and I went out to the theatre to see Return of the King.

Wow.

Just... wow.

Jackson took a pedantic, nigh-unreadable set of leaden tomes and made a cinematic masterpiece. The Two Towers had a horrible case of middle installment syndrome, but King made up for it amazingly.

Wow.

I fully support all his changes, in chronology and story tweaking. He made it his. He made it a movie. Pippin singing that wistful little song to the mad king of Minas Tirith while Faramir made his hopeless charge was masterful, and was cinema. That sequence made me cry - a lot of sequences in it did. It worked my emotions over but I was quite willing to let it.

There was more noble sacrifice in that movie than in any other three films.

Also, two places I was very good and bit my tongue, refraining from hollering something at the screen: when the Orcs capture the river outside of Minas Tirith, and the Orc chieftan hollers something about "This is the beginning of the age of ORCS!", I so wanted to cheer! And twice near the end, first when Sam and Frodo were surrounded by lava after destroying the Ring and, well, were getting ready to die, and later on when Frodo was saying goodbye to the other hobbits before getting on the ship to the West... it was a physical effort to not shout out "Kiss 'im like you MEAN IT, Sam! Get some TONGUE, Frodo!" or something similar. But this is probably because I've been corrupted by too much slash.

I might go out to dinner a little later with doctorpinkerton, but I think it's more likely to happen tomorrow.

Comments

[mercurypale.livejournal.com]

i wanted to see some cute hobbit kissing and/or cuddling too. :(

you wanted some gandalf x paw paw bears slash yayayaya

[immortalpain.livejournal.com]

Pippin's song was horrifically moving, and one of the scenes in the movie that stands out most in my mind. If that movie doesn't get an oscar for best picture, it'll be a fucking crime.

[lapdragon.livejournal.com]

It's in the second half of track 4 of the sound track. It's still awesome, but it looses something outside the movie.

[obonicus.livejournal.com]

I'll probably be tarred and feathered, but...

I thought the charge was HEAVY-handed. They painted Denethor as some sort of PG-13 Caligula. Watch me gorge on little tomatoes while my son charges to his death.

It was like the bit in TT where Peter Jackson just. shows. you. every. single. little. kid. going. to. battle.

I liked, it, sure, but as an action movie.

P.S.

[obonicus.livejournal.com]

Was it just me, or did Sam basically promise to be straight if he survived, at the end?
Hard to tell, with all the sultry hobbit looks going about.

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Say "hi" to the good Doctor for me? :)

The movie was stirring and amazing, yes. It's cool seeing you enjoy it so much. I saw it a second time with The Most Sarcastic Fox In The World... and he didn't hold back on the comments. :)

"On fire, runs a quarter mile, and wins the High Dive competition. He's not th steward of Gondor, he's the freakin' energizer bunny!"

"since when did hordes of helpful dead guys turn into a battlefield version of Nuclear Green Scrubbing Bubbles?"

"Wow. Damn marketing is everywhere. Talk about an intrusive Dianetics ad!" (during all the Mt. Doom scenes)...

Damn you for making me laugh, reality_fox... :)

Slashy slashy slash slash

[raki.livejournal.com]

LotR slash is a wonderful world of fun! Once you get past the ubiquitous Legolas/Aragorn pairing based on the film actors, you get to wonderful things like Legolas/Boromir, which is my personal favourite... Mmmm...

{grin}

I like slash.

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

There were some truly beautiful scenes in RotK. Masterfully done movie.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

The minute I heard that Tom Bombadil was being jettisoned from the story, I cried "YES!" That one decison turned what would have been a talky nightmare a-la "Dune" into a tight, moving story of a group of friends under extraordinary circumstances.

A lot of folks have been asking for the film to get a Best Picture Oscar, but I think what would be better would be to give a special award to the trilogy for being a once-in-a-lifetime project. Peter Jackson especially deserve recognition for what he's done, and whoever at New Line Cinema greenlighted this should be put in charge of the rest of Warner Bros.

And just think, it's the same man who did "Meet the Feebles." :D

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

Sodomy! You might think it very odd of me...

crying like a hobbit

[eselgeist.livejournal.com]

for me, the emotional cinematic money shot was gandalf riding out with his staff lit up, driving away those flying nasties from the field. very ghostly and quite charged, to me. the rest was Quite Good, and redeemed the previous two films for me, which i wasn't too keen on. but i wouldn't have understood this one without them, and this one was a beautiful work.

[ourasquirrel.livejournal.com]

There's one scene where Frodo is trying to drink out of the empty water skin and It was kind of a touching scene because sam gives him his own water... I almost exploded with laughter because all I could think of was "Three Amigos". Frodo's is empty, Sam's is full of sand, and then cut to Gollum who has a full one and drinks about half, pouring it all over his face and then just throws it on the ground. Then Gollum takes out some lip balm and applies it, offering some to the other two hobbits.

I'm weird.

[radd.livejournal.com]

I loved it, except for the scenes in the valley of the dead, and the scene where the pirate ships show up. Few other minor gripes, but those scenes just did not survive the translation from Tolkien to Jackson at all.

And yeah, did anyone else notice that Frodo didn't hug Sam at all until after Sam promised to go straight?